Seashore Revalations 16x20 Mixed Media on a 20x28 canvas

$500.00

Painted in the days just after my diagnosis, Seashore Revelations is a portrait of a nervous system in motion—anxious, electrified, searching for ground. The lines in this piece refuse to sit still. They loop and pull like tide and undertow, mirroring the swirl of worry, fear, and painful uncertainty that came with learning I had breast cancer at 42.

Though created as a test piece before the residency officially began, it quickly became something more—a raw record of emotional overwhelm, and a first attempt at giving shape to the unspoken. The title came later, like a whisper from the edge: even in chaos, there is clarity. Even in fear, there is the shimmer of something sacred just beneath the surface.

The piece holds tension—between movement and stillness, between overwhelm and revelation. It reminds me that healing doesn’t always begin with stillness. Sometimes it begins in the storm.

Materials: acrylic paint, ink, pencil, oil pastel, and stitched fiber on unstretched gesso’d canvas

Each piece in Where the Ink Ran Out was created during or in preparation for my residency at ArtQuest at GreenHill, where my intention was to explore what couldn’t be fully expressed through words alone. All works are on loose, unstretched canvas, with a 16x20 area hand-gessoed at the center, leaving an unprimed border around the edges. I love how this allows the raw edges and natural wrinkles of the canvas to create dimension—each one casting its own subtle shadows. These pieces are meant to be framed in a way that honors that softness and relief, rather than flattening them completely. I also pushed the boundaries of mixed media in this collection, using embroidery floss as a connective and highlighting element—stitched into the canvas like a drawn line, guiding the eye and anchoring the emotion.

Painted in the days just after my diagnosis, Seashore Revelations is a portrait of a nervous system in motion—anxious, electrified, searching for ground. The lines in this piece refuse to sit still. They loop and pull like tide and undertow, mirroring the swirl of worry, fear, and painful uncertainty that came with learning I had breast cancer at 42.

Though created as a test piece before the residency officially began, it quickly became something more—a raw record of emotional overwhelm, and a first attempt at giving shape to the unspoken. The title came later, like a whisper from the edge: even in chaos, there is clarity. Even in fear, there is the shimmer of something sacred just beneath the surface.

The piece holds tension—between movement and stillness, between overwhelm and revelation. It reminds me that healing doesn’t always begin with stillness. Sometimes it begins in the storm.

Materials: acrylic paint, ink, pencil, oil pastel, and stitched fiber on unstretched gesso’d canvas

Each piece in Where the Ink Ran Out was created during or in preparation for my residency at ArtQuest at GreenHill, where my intention was to explore what couldn’t be fully expressed through words alone. All works are on loose, unstretched canvas, with a 16x20 area hand-gessoed at the center, leaving an unprimed border around the edges. I love how this allows the raw edges and natural wrinkles of the canvas to create dimension—each one casting its own subtle shadows. These pieces are meant to be framed in a way that honors that softness and relief, rather than flattening them completely. I also pushed the boundaries of mixed media in this collection, using embroidery floss as a connective and highlighting element—stitched into the canvas like a drawn line, guiding the eye and anchoring the emotion.

When you purchase an original, if you don’t choose to pick it up from the studio you will be sent an additional invoice for shipping costs.

This piece is not framed (framed pictures are just to give you context of how the piece could look framed. No refunds or exchanges. All sales are final.